French theories on text and discourse

It could be alleged that present-day French linguistics is characterized by a specific connection between the epistemology of text and that of discourse. The contributions gathered in this volume aim to reconsider this link – or dichotomy? – in light of the latest research developments. They are organized in three parts: the first explores the text-discourse connection, while the second and third tackle the epistemologies of text and discourse.

Summary :

Introduction : Language/speech vs. text/discourse: A “family resemblance” ?

Part 1: Text-discourse links

Jean-Michel Adam
Chapter 1 
Micro-level, meso-level and macro-level of textual structuring
and complexity

Michel Charolles
Chapter 2 
“Framing adverbials” as markers of discourse organization

Guy Achard-Bayle
Chapter 3 
Text, discourse, cognition

Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni
Chapter 4 
From discourse analysis to analysis of discourses

Alain Rabatel
Chapter 5 
Enunciator position, positioning and posture

Part 2: Text epistemologies

François Rastier
Chapter 6 
Dissipative units

Driss Ablali
Chapter 7 
Corpus semantics, the unfinished project of Greimas’ Structural
semantics

VI  Contents

Bernard Combettes
Chapter 8 
Suggestions for a diachronic text linguistics

Lita Lundquist
Chapter 9 
40 years of text linguistics and its didactic application in teaching French
as a foreign language

Part 3: Epistemologies of discourse – and beyond

Patrick Charaudeau
Chapter 10 
A socio-communicational model of discourse (between communication
situation and individuation strategies)

Dominique Maingueneau
Chapter 11 
Discourse, discourse analysis, and discourse genres

Ruth Amossy
Chapter 12 
Integrating argumentation in discourse analysis? Problems
and challenges

André Petitjean
Chapter 13 
Linguistics and literature: Style in question

Index nominum
Index rerum